Patti Masterman Poems

When you marry someone, you are getting more than just a husband or wife-
There are unknown entities, being taken in to your bosom, your bed;
Undeclared desires, misdirected motives- past lovers
The heart can't let go, and never-buried corpses
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You've given new meaning even to pain:
Pain now comes in colors and hues
And the only pain now worth disdain
Is the pain didn't come from you...
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If at first I had seen you as a still-life
Of passing interest, in one of those restaurants
With heightened pretensions of the eclectic: culture in a can
You would have remained void of deepness, to me:
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I'm not as young as old,
You are, as playing this game;
Shall we remain just two dancers
In an unannounced dance
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Just let the darkness come,
If it can't be helped; let it come soon:
Let it remove your too familiar touch
From the rippling canvas of my heart's hesitations.
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For how can suffer, the little children
Our world, as though were never made, for them:
While even young, find happiness seldom,
So often given birth, through just a whim.
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That's why scientists use lawyers for experiments instead of rats
Stumpy replied, I was gonna say something when Martha fell out-
But ten dollars is ten dollars
Don't listen to him- he isn't even your father
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Never trust men named Bo
Never forget there's rain
Around a rainbow
Expect all pets to reproduce
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The Indefinite Article

The noun was long the verb was brief,
It began with a vowel, the surly thief;
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Billy was the first one to be born;
Will followed soon; the portal was torn,
And Joe was the laggart; he's lagging still,
For they all had to swallow that bitter pill:
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